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One drug bust every week, yetGoa claims theres no drugmafiaby Sep 9, 2014

#Congress#Drug mafa#Drugs#Goa#Goa Police#Hashish#Kishen Kumar#LSD#Manohar

Parriar#mari!uana#Me"amphe"amine##DPS $c"#S"a"es#Sunil

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Panaji:With almost Sabbath like regularity, a drug den or a drug dealer is busted almost

once week in Goa, according to state police records

!mid controversial statements made by the state"s top cop and top politician in the recent

past that there is no drug mafia in eistence in Goa, police records on drug raids accessed by

$irstpost from %&'' to %&'( seem to suggest otherwise) that police drug*busts in the narco*

tourism paradise occur once every week

( $n an"i)*rugs +anner $-P

+olice statistics show that in %&'', ( cases were registered under the -arcotics .rugs and

+sychotropic Substances /-.+S0 !ct, were registered in %&'% and in %&'(, & cases were

registered under the same act 1n all '2 cases were registered from %&''*%&'(, which

amounts to almost one case booked every week

Over ''3 1ndian nationals were arrested in the last three years for possession and
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attempting to sell drugs ranging from natural drugs like hashish and mari4uana to eotic

synthetic drugs like 5S. and 6etamphetamine also known as 6.6!

1nterestingly, statistics also show that more than a third of the drug sei7ures, involved

foreign nationals, mainly -igerians 8hirty*four -igerians were busted during the '2 drugraids from %&''*'(, which effectually means that every fourth raid conducted by state police

station raiding teams and the elite !nti*-arcotics 9ell of the Goa +olice netted one -igerian

national for possession or selling dope

.rug war involving -igerian nationals, including some linked to drug trade and a local drug

gang operating from the notorious coastal village of 9hapora, % km north of +ana4i, had

spilled on the streets in October last year 8he protesting -igerians had flung a corpse of a

slain compatriot allegedly murdered by local drug dealers on the -ational :ighway ';,

blocking traffic for hours, even beating policemen and local bystanders present on the

scene

1sraelis, '>& kg0 in October last year Gary *year*old


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distribution of drugs in the stateB

8he 9ongress has alleged that such statements despite overwhelming statistics showed

something was fishy and reflected badly on the police force who were cracking down on the

drug industry players B1t is a slap on the face of those honest police officers and people whoare fighting against the drug mafia in Goa,B says 9ongress spokesperson Sunil Cauthankar

! legislative committee report has indicted former home minister =avi -aik and his son =oy

for their alleged links to the 1sraeli drug mafia operating in Goa 8he same report had also

called 6ohan"s predecessor, .G+ Cishen Cumar the BkingpinB as far as providing police

protection to the drug mafia operating in the state is concerned


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6afia wars rule drug trade in Goa"s beach belts8-- D.ec %3, %&'%, &'(>!6 1S8

9!5!-GE8@F6!+ES!) !lthough a number of drug mafias are said to be operating

in the tourism hotspots of -orth Goa"s coastal areas, the police have only managed

to crackdown on the -igerian cartel operating in the 9alangute area Out of the &*

odd drug raids all over Goa this year, the maimum*';*have taken place in

9alangute, while areas like !n4una, 6or4im and !rambol, considered strongholds of

the drug mafia, have seen only a handful of raids @ven these raids have only netted

the small fish, with the =ussian, 1sraeli and local drug lords apparently en4oying

immunity, allegedly due to a police*drug mafia neus

8he =ussians and 1sraelis deal in drugs like 6.6!, ecstasy and charas, according to

sources 8he -igerians allegedly control the cocaine rackets ! former police

inspector at the !n4una police station, !shish Shirodkar, along with si other

policemen, has already been arrested and suspended for his role in the drug mafia*

police neus which was first eposed around two years ago


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most of them -igerians, since the new


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Ecstasy, honey-traps and the mafia the Goan party

becomes deadlyNovember 08, 2013

$ s"a"e no.n /or "ourism is no. in/es"e* .i"h *rug car"els

a!i3 %heo*ore

#' DLH56 %hin "ourism an* "he image o/ Goa loom large %he pe"i"e pic"ure

pos")car* s"a"e on 5n*ia7s .es" coas" is +lesse* .i"h pris"ine +eaches, *a88ling

sunshine an* a roman"ic monsoon, no" "o spea o/ "he eo"ic local cuisine 5" has

al.as +een a ge"a.a /or "he 5n*ian an* "he /oreign "ouris" alie

u" "o*a s"a"is"ics ha3e a *i:eren" s"or "o "ell %he "ourism minis"r7s annual

repor" o/ 2012 *oes no" ha3e Goa +eing men"ione* an.here in "he 20 page

*ocumen" Despi"e i"s 1000 plus *e*ica"e* char"er ;igh"s, Goa shares less "han

10< o/ /oreign "ouris" "ra=c Mean.hile, a legisla"i3e repor" on "he police)*rug

mafa neus in Goa has 3ir"uall rein/orce* "he s"a"e7s repu"a"ion as "he "op narco)

"ourism *es"ina"ion in "he coun"r, a popular percep"ion "ha" "he s"a"e is /as"

"ring "o shrug o:

$ repor" o/ "he commi""ee, chaire* + legisla"or -rancisco alias Mic Pacheco o/

"he Goa >ias Par", eposes "he *eepl en"renche* *rug mafa +lesse* + "he

police an* poli"ical echelons %he role o/ police in /os"ering "he *rug "ra*e in "he

s"a"e came "o ligh" "hree ears ago a/"er S.e*ish mo*el Luc -armhouse

uploa*e* a 3i*eo on ?ou%u+e "ha" sho.e* her /ormer 5sraeli *rug *ealer +o/rien*

?ani3 enaim alias $"ala o/ +oas"ing o/ his connec"ions .i"h "he police an*

poli"icians

#o. .hen ou pu" "he /alling "ouris" le3els an* "he rise o/ "he *rug car"els

"oge"her, a pic"ure emerges @"ha" o/ a *eca*en" s"a"e in "he grip o/ mafa car"els

%he recen" mur*er o/ A+ina Paul, a #igerian, all /all in"o place lie a !ig sa. pu88le

Securi" o=cials in Goa "al a+ou" ho. "he #igerian *rug car"el .as a.are o/ an

eminen" police crac*o.n on "hem an* s"age manage* "his mur*er as a mo3e "o

*is"rac" a""en"ion a.a /rom "hem %hrough "his ac", "he car"el ha* ensure* "ha"

"his .oul* lea* "o pro"es"s an* la"er a *iploma"ic "ussle Paul is sai* "o ha3e +een

one o/ "he moles .ho in/orme* "he narco"ic cell lea*ing "o a sei8ure o/ *rugs .or"h
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upees one crore %he *rug car"el ha* /ace* man such losses in "he pas",

especiall a/"er Kar"hi Kashap "oo o3er as "he an"i)narco"ic chie/ in Goa

A=cials also sa "ha" "he mafa, .i"h "his illing, also .an"e* "o con3e a message

"o "he moles an* also +ring a+ou" *iploma"ic pressure "o sa/eguar* #igerian

ci"i8ens li3ing in "he s"a"e

5n /ac" "his is eac"l .ha" happene* $ series o/ 3iolen" pro"es"s, /ollo.e* + a

*iploma"ic ro. .i"h #igeria 5n "urn, "he $/rican na"ion has issue* a no" so 3eile*

"hrea" "ha" "he 5n*ians "here .oul* no" +e spare* i/ a crac*o.n happens in 5n*ia

Goa has one o/ "he mos" po.er/ul *rug car"els an* mafa in "he en"ire .orl* .hich

is con"rolle* + "he ussians, 5sraelis an* "he #igerians %he #igerians ha3e "aen

o3er a consi*era+le amoun" o/ con"rol o3er "he *rug car"el in Goa .i"h e

opera"ions in Calangu"e, $n!una, $ram+ol an* Mor!im, accor*ing "o "he an"i)

narco"ic cell

%he *rugs "hemsel3es are ca"egori8e* amongs" car"els in or*er o/ a3aila+ili" in

GoaBcocaine is .i"h "he #igerians, "he ussians ha3e mari!uana an* charas .hile

"he 5sraelis *eal .i"h cs"as

%he +igges" e3i*ence "o "he *rug "ra*e in Goa .as .hen a 3i*eo o/ ?ani3 enaim

$"ala, "he mos" po.er/ul 5sraeli *rug lor*, .en" up on "he 5n"erne" .here he speas

a+ou" "he manner in .hich "he Goan police an* "op poli"icians ho+no+ .i"h "hesecar"els

%his ha* le* "o "he arres" o/ se3eral cops, inclu*ing an inspec"or a" $n!una, $shish

Shiro*har 5" has also re3eale* ho. "he neus .ore* %he *rug *ealers frs"

suppl *rugs "o /oreign "ouris"s an* "hen gi3e ou" in/orma"ion a+ou" "hem "o "he

police %he police in "urn con*uc" "he rai* an* *eman* huge sum o/ mone in

*ollars %he are "hen gi3en immuni" .hich in "urns allo.s "he *rug pe**lers "o

"ra*e .i"hou" "he /ear o/ ge""ing caugh"

%he an"i)narco"ic o=cials sa "ha" "he *rug "ra*e in Goa is .or"h s 000 crore

per ear an* mos" o/ "he *rugs are source* /rom $/ghanis"an an* Pais"an $ll "he

*rugs lan* in an unmanne* area o/ a Goan coas" Mos" o/ "he s"a"e7s coas" s"ill

remaine* unpro"ec"e*, unlie "he res" o/ "he coas" in "he coun"r, .hich ha3e

s"eppe* up opera"ions a/"er "he a""acs o/ 211 $ccor*ing "o in3es"iga"ions,


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nearl 90 per cen" o/ "he *rugs arri3e + sea .hile "he res" are +rough" in mainl

+ "he ussian mafa in char"ere* ;igh"s

Police poin" "o "he poli"ician)mafa neus %here are se3eral legisla"ors .i"h .hose

+lessings "hese car"els /unc"ion %he +igges" *ra. /or "he *rug car"els are "he ra3e

par"ies an* "his is .here mos" o/ "he *rugs sell a3e par"ies normall organi8e*

on +eaches ha3e "he pro"ec"ion o/ "he local legisla"ors

Au" o/ "he 1E rai*s "ha" .ere con*uc"e* in "he pas" ear, i" has +een /oun* "ha"

"here .ere a" leas" F0 *rug pe**lers, all /rom #igeria, opera"ing in #or"h Goa

Man o/ "he #igerians .ere o3er s"aing in Goa e3en a/"er "heir 3isas ha* epire*

%he *namics o/ *rug "ra*e in Goa6 "he ussians are "he ol*es" in "his pro/ession

%he, ho.e3er, a*here "o a s"ric" co*e %he suppl *rugs onl "o "heir na"ionals

an* "here is a sense o/ loal" .hich helps "hem sur3i3e %he nearl 0,000

ussians .ho arri3e in Goa each ear is enough clien"ele "o eep "heir +usiness

in"ac" %he #igerians relie* ho.e3er on o"her na"ionali"ies "o pe**le *rugs .hich

le* "o ma!or crac*o.ns %he ussians normall use real es"a"e +usiness as a

/ron" /or *rugs

%he mo*us operan*i o/ "he 5sraelis has +een "he hone "raps "o lure in "heir

cus"omers %his car"el o/"en pe**les so/" *rugs, .hich coul* +e ecs"as or "he *a"e

rape 3arie" %he rel on .omen as "heir carriers .ho opera"e mainl a" $n!una

an* par"s o/ Sou"h Goa .ho pic up men an* sell "hem *rugs cos"ing an"hing+e".een 100 "o F00 *ollars

Goa7s *rug scene has e3ol3e* /rom "he 0s)E0s, .hen na"ural *rugs lie hashish

an* grass .ere "he "oas" o/ "he "imes, along .i"h "he occasional aci* "rips *uring

+eachsi*e ra3es Ane o/ "he ol* "imer *rug *ealer ha* a *i:eren" s"or "o "ell

&ames &enn, .ho .as arres"e* /or hoar*ing nearl 20 g o/ gan!a in "he earl 90s

spoe a+ou" his li/e la"er a/"er his release He .oul* +u nearl a uin"al o/ gan!a

/rom I"he Silen" >alle /ores"s, .hich sprea* across "hree 5n*ian s"a"es o/

Karna"aa, Kerala an* %amil #a*u

J5 use* "o lug a 2 g sac o/ gan!a on m +ac an* .al along $n!una, A8ran"

an* >aga"or +each selling m s"oc Li/e .as so eas "hen, &enn claims

%he game an* "he "ur/ has change* "o*a 5"7s +ecome a /as" changing comple

corpora"e a:air $ccor*ing "o *uar*o -aleiro, a /ormer union minis"er o/ s"a"e /or


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e"ernal a:airs, "he +usiness o/ narco"ics is more corpora"e orien"e* 5" is

con"rolle* + /oreigners, .ho ha3e "heir fe* areas "o opera"e /rom, an* o/"en

pre/er "o ca"er "o fe* na"ionali"ies


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For Goa's drug lords, Gokarna

is next stopMonday, 2 December 2013 - 12:28pm IST | Place: Karwar | Agency: dna

NDPS investigators keeping a close watch on Nigerians coming to Om beach.

The drug mafia in Goa, which fought a ruthless turf war recently, has spread

its tentacles to neighbouring Karnataka, and has begun to operate from the

Om beach in Gokarna.


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Thepolicein Gokarna have spotted many Nigerians arriving in the town

housing the religious shrine, which, according to them is a new and alarming

trend. So far, Nigerians were not keen on visiting Om beach which is just a

pleasant drive away from this religiously inclined township.

The town, known for its Shiva temple and the skills of its purohits to perform

the last rites of Hindus, is now under surveillance of the Narcotics and

Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) sleuths.

A senior official with the NDPS cell of the State police said they had confirmed

reports that a fewNigerian nationals having links with drug peddlers inGoawere trying to

operate from Karnataka, after one of them was killed during the gang war in

the western Indian state.

The foreigners seem to be moving to Gokarna, after failing to set up shop in

Canacona or Palaolim, said a senior official of the NDPS cell of the state

police. The department has also sensitized the local hotels, resorts and local

groups of people and fishermen youths about the influx of the foreigners.

The turf war over drugs that broke out in Goa earlier this month took the toll of

one Nigerian national Obina Paul which brought the entire Nigerian group into

open as they blocked the roads in the Goa and the government of Goa started

cracking down on not just Nigerian drug mafia but also the local and Russian

drug peddlers according to BJP functionaries in Mapusa, Majorda and Anjuna

the MLAs of their areas have asked the local fringe groups to intensify their

vigil against the drug peddlers.
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Sources in the police say that patrolling has been intensified on few beaches

of UttaraKannadaand towns like Karwar, Kumta and Gokarna. Intelligence

exchanges between the police have also been happening in Southern

maritime districts like Dakshina Kannada and Udupi.

One of the threats that Nigerians have handed to the Goa government after

Obina Paul died, was that the government should know there were number of

Indians living in Nigeria, they have taken our jobs and some of us who were

students cannot go back as there were no jobs, so we continue to stay here

and try to earn money through peddling. If the government here harasses us

think about Indians in Nigeria, this political observation made by the Nigerians

has been viewed seriously by the Goan government. The next step will be to

take the help of theMinistry of External Affairsto deal with the illegally

overstaying Nigerians, which was now on the cards.

The beaches inKarnatakawould not be easy for the foreign drug mafia to

take over.We have posted our youth activists on all beaches right from Mazali

to Om beach, said Sudhir Prabhu, member of the Bajrang Dal. We will not

take law into our hands but only act as a pressure group and inform police and

NDPS sleuths in our area about the narcotics dealers, said Prabhu.
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New modus operandi of drug smugglers

unearthed

PANJIM !he arrest of a Ni"erian and#ashmiri $b%sinessmen$ in Goa by a team ofNarcotics Control &%rea% at An'%na onSat%rday has %nearthed a ne( mod%soperandi of dr%" sm%""lers) !he case has

bro%"ht %nder the scanner b%sinesses r%nby #ashmiris as (ell as certain party cl%bsalon" the coastal belt)

17 Feb, 2014, 12:00AM IST

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PANJIM !he arrest of a Ni"erian and #ashmiri /b%sinessmen0 in Goa by a team of Narcotics Control

&%rea% at An'%na on Sat%rday has %nearthed a ne( mod%s operandi of dr%" sm%""lers) !he case has

bro%"ht %nder the scanner b%sinesses r%n by #ashmiris as (ell as certain party cl%bs alon" the coastal

belt)

A "arment shop o(ner Ashi1 Shah, ori"inally hailin" from Jamm% 2 #ashmir and carryin" o%t his

b%siness in An'%na (as arrested (ith a coc3tail of dr%"s (hich (as concealed in the clothes at his shop)

*%ndred ecstacy tablets and 45 strips of S paper (as sei6ed (hich Shah confessed to the team (as

s%pplied by Ni"erian 7ran3lin Eme3a%ch%l(%) !he forei"ner (as s%bse1%ently arrested (hile he (as

deli8erin" a consi"nment to another c%stomer (orth +s 9: la3h)

So%rces said the #ashmiri has been r%nnin" the dr%"s rac3et %nder the "arb of "arment store and sold

dr%"s s%ch as S, Cocaine, MMA;Ecstacy and Charas to to%rists since last three years)


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Goa Drug Mafa 5nspires High)s"rung Con"ro3ers

By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | IANS - PANAJI

Published: 08th May 20! 0:2" AM

#ast $%dated: 08th May 20! 0:2" AM

&'ail

()% *)% (+N+ M)han,s blanket denial ) a .drug 'aia. )%erating in /)a is sn)balling int) a 'a1)r

*)ntr)versy in the bea*h state that has earned a bad na'e as a .nar*)-t)uris' destinati)n.+

hile a legislat)r ) the ruling BJP has la'ented that the state'ent ) the dire*t)r general ) %)li*e

34/P5 ill )nly .e'b)lden drug 'aias. )%erating in /)a6 v)i*es )n the s)*ial 'edia have als) *)'e )ut

str)ngly against M)han,s denial ) a ell-)iled nar*)ti*s net)rk in the *)astal state+

.7) *an the 4/P say there is n) 'aia (here as a 'urder )utside 'y h)use be*ause ) a ight

beteen the Nigerian 'aia and l)*al drug 'aia+ 4) the %)li*e n)t re'e'ber h) Nigerians in

retaliati)n bl)*ked a highay by du'%ing a b)dy )n it and h) they beat u% %)li*e'en there6. asked

Mi*hael #)b)6 h) re%resents the 9alangute *)nstituen*y6 kn)n )r its bea*hes as ell as its

nar*)ti*s-la*ed nightlie+

n ;riday6 M)han6 the nely-a%%)inted 4/P6 had under%layed the signii*an*e ) nar*)ti*s *)ntr)l as a

t)%-)-the-'ind %)li*ing issue+

.(here are drugs in /)a+++ It is still 'y )%ini)n that /)a is n)t Me?6000 *r)re illegal 'ining s*a'+

(he asse'bly has seen 9)ngress as ell as Bharatiya Janata Party 3BJP5 'e'bers a**using ea*h )ther

) sheltering drug 'aias6 b)th d)'esti* and )reign+

(he asse'bly as6 in a*t6 ad1)urned several ti'es in July 200 ater a legislative *)''ittee re%)rt

%r)bing the ne


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*)ntributed t) the %)li*e-drug 'aia ne

one drug bust every week

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